When does "19's First Alert" decide to become last alert

[Northcoast43]

Is it just me, or does channel 19 have little problem pre-empting "CBS Evening News", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy".

In order to tell us about the latest storm warnings in every surrounding, but far away county. But when a storm hits 'my' Cuyahoga County (their licensed counties) backyard. Knocking power out a time or two, practically breaking windows with hail, making flash floods imminent and travel dangerous, and with almost tornado like wind bursts. Those programs roll without interruption save for a few crawls across the top of the screen?

In the earlier situations...They are almost apologetic stating it's a requirement to pre-empt those shows, like the F.C.C. requires it. But tonight, Jason and company must've had steak dinner reservations or something more worthwhile...So we weren't informed?

Odd...and kind of curious as to why it went ignored?

 

[snowdog88]

Is it just me, or does channel 19 have little problem pre-empting "CBS Evening News", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy".

In order to tell us about the latest storm warnings in every surrounding, but far away county. But when a storm hits 'my' Cuyahoga County (their licensed counties) backyard. Knocking power out a time or two, practically breaking windows with hail, making flash floods imminent and travel dangerous, and with almost tornado like wind bursts. Those programs roll without interruption save for a few crawls across the top of the screen?

In the earlier situations...They are almost apologetic stating it's a requirement to pre-empt those shows, like the F.C.C. requires it. But tonight, Jason and company must've had steak dinner reservations or something more worthwhile...So we weren't informed?

Odd...and kind of curious as to why it went ignored?

WJW and WKYC were about the only ones covering the severe weather after 7 PM. Around 7:20, both went back to news.

Mark Johnson (WEWS) was surprisingly quiet after the the 6 PM news, not even interrupting once.

Wheel of Fortune was a repeat, so I'm surprised that WOIO didn't pre-empt that. Jeopardy, on the other hand, was new, but by then most of that severe weather had weakened. Sometimes I wonder about WOIO's certified most accurate claim.

Not sure about WBNX, but within the last year, they've been quiet with their weather alerts. They used to run a banner for each alert (advisory, watch, warning), accompanied with that ear piercing EAS tone.

 

[davideduardo]

In order to tell us about the latest storm warnings in every surrounding, but far away county. But when a storm hits 'my' Cuyahoga County (their licensed counties) backyard. Knocking power out a time or two, practically breaking windows with hail, making flash floods imminent and travel dangerous, and with almost tornado like wind bursts. Those programs roll without interruption save for a few crawls across the top of the screen?

Back when stations had to do extensive "ascertainment of community needs" for renewal, they were expected to speak with community leaders in their entire primary coverage area, not just the city of license.

And a station in Cleveland finds viewers in Akron, Mansfield, Canton, Sandusky or Ashtabula just as important as they are in the same ratings "zone" as Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. There are 17 counties in the TV market.

 

[MegaBlue]

It might depend on the severity of the storm, and whether or not it merits breaking into programming. As most summer storms perk up in the afternoon, odds are there's already a newscast going, so the only things would be to turn the show over to the weather team if they need to totally devote time to it, and that's usually if there's a tornado either about to form or on the ground. For a severe thunderstorm, I think it's a coin-toss situation as to whether or not they'll break in. I've seen it happen where a Tornado Warning will expire, they'll go back to programming, then come back on two minutes later because that same storm decided to get rowdy again 5 miles away from where it was before.

If they came on for every severe weather incident, there'd be nothing but weather coverage on, and then we'd be complaining that they NEVER STOP TALKING about the storm and showing the same two fan videos of the storm. (BTW, for anyone that ever gets caught in a storm... PLEASE FILM IT IN LANDSCAPE MODE. TVs aren't 95" 4K OLED curved screens simply to parrot cell phone video in a tiny portion of the middle of the screen. Your phone has six cameras in it for a reason!)

We have the opposite complaints when there's a snowstorm and every station in town sends their crack teams of reporters to the same four locations to tell you that it's snowing and you should stay home for marathon shifts at a stretch.